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Tuesday, 29 January 2013

[Meat Free January] Veggie Fritters From Honest Burgers, Soho

With only 2 days and 6 hours and 30 minutes to go until I can eat meat again (yes, I'm counting the minutes too), I thought I'd hit up Veggie Burger #4 from Brixton and Soho burger stalwart - Honest Burgers.

Honest Burgers Veggie Fritter

My Meat Free January adventures have, to date, taken me through some of London's classic burger joints, including:

As each 'burger' so far has incorporated WHOLE ingredients, I thought it was about time to try a man-made burger - something that combines the ingredients and forms it into something resembling a patty. Here's how Honest Burgers veggie fritter went down...

Market Vegetable Fritter from Honest Burgers, Soho

First of all, what is it?Honest Burger's veggie fritter is composed of a cauliflour, sweetcorn, shallots, coriander, onion-bhaji style 'patty', fried until dark brown and crunchy and sandwiched between two sides of a toasted Honest Burgers bun and filled with chopped lettuce underneath and a cucumber yoghurt topping. It comes with a decent portion of rosemary salted fries.All this for the princely sum of £6.50.

All boxed up - Honest veggie fritter with rosemary salted fries

So HOW is it?Well, it's really rather good. The crunchy exterior of the fritter gives way to a warm, moist and filling veggie patty - an excellent balance between the earthy cauliflour, mellow onions and juicy sweetcorn, all wrapped up in a warming coriander flavour. The cucumber yoghurt and lettuce adds a crunchy, sobering edge to the soft veggies and I can't rave enough about the excellent Honest toasted bun.Now before you attribute my feelings towards this veggie burger to a deeply depressing reorientation of my taste buds towards veggie rather than meat, I gave a shout out on Twitter about how much I liked it, which revealed some surprising fans of the Honest Burgers fritter including none other than London burger legend Fred Smith, and chef and writer Sabrina Ghayour - so I feel I'm in good company.

I had the veggie fritter as a takeaway, as the wait for a table was around 45 minutes (Honest doing a roaring trade at 6pm on a Tuesday night) - and I'm mightily impressed. Still, if I had the choice I'd probably go for the eponymous Honest Burger, but then it's not every month I don't eat meat!Honest Burgers is located at 4A Meard Street, Soho, London W1F 0EF